Dance
Monday after Mardi Gras is busy in the House of Priscilla costume hire store on Sydney’s Oxford Street.
Customers traipse in to drop off their outfits, many still bleary-eyed after 48 hours of partying. Word is, this year’s Mardi Gras was a good one, even if American drag queen RuPaul was a letdown. But there’s one thing every gay man on Oxford St agrees with: Kylie Minogue stole the show.
Kylie appeared at her third Mardi Gras this year, performing a half hour set at 2am at the post-parade party. The crowd loved her. She loved them. And why wouldn’t she? The 43 year old has pretty much built her entire career around pleasing her gay constituency.
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When I was a kid, I loved watching all the old movies.
I can remember precisely the day that I asked my mother for a pair of black and white wing-tip shoes so that I could learn to dance like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
Turns out those shoes, even at that time, were very much out of fashion and hard to find, so I never got them.
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Fiona Chorley says:
My son has been dancing since he was 4 (jazz and tap) - he has always brushed off the teasing and done his own thing - in fact you met him last year at the Eastwood singing star comp where he came second! He has since been cast as Michael… Read more »
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Richard Rountree says:
tell your son to keep it up but aim for Europe (get away from Australian philistines) I work as a bouncer but did some tap dancing as a kid Read more »
Pressure might mount on older drivers to get off the roads as they approach 80, but it’s nothing compared to the pressure to get off the dance floor once you’re approaching 40.
Though the precise cut-off is elusive, the social convention is clear: if you’re dancing your way into middle age, you’re courting tragedy.
Of course no one’s stopping you busting a move – but there’s this question of dignity. Perhaps it’s best to just cede the floor. But while that might be gracious it seems unwise.
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dizzy blonde says:
Yeah, I always say, if 70 is average life span, then 35 is middle aged! Life is short even if we do manage to live to 80 or beyond. So, I believe in living life to the fullest. Sure we all see those few people who are out on the… Read more »
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SuzanneL says:
Speak for yourself, Ms. Crutchfield. If you stop dancing you might as well die. Try Contra Dancing. It’s for all ages - http://tftm.org/newsblog/?page_id=466 Read more »
You have probably seen this before. But on the weekend after Michael Jackson left us, I thought it was worth another run. You can’t watch this video of inmates at a jail in the Philippines busting their Thriller moves too many times.
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rama says:
Dear Ms. Tory Maguire Pls have the decency not to call Michael Jackson “Wacko Jacko” . Pls show some respect to the dead. It was offending to MJ to be called such: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwinJ2__5Y Read more »
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phyllis.stein says:
Prison rape set to music…West Side Story meets OZ? Eisteddfod at gun point. Lame. Read more »
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